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What a horrible statement you have described, Stranger! And what widespread corruption of the young in private families as well as publicly in the States!Athenian
That is indeed true, Clinias. What, then, do you think the lawgiver ought to do, seeing that these people have been armed in this way for a long time past? Should he merely stand up in the city and threaten all the people that unless they affirm that the gods exist and conceive them in their minds to be such as the law maintains1 and so likewise with regard to the beautiful and the just and all the greatest things,
1 Cp. Plat. Laws 634d, Plat. Laws 634e; Plat. Laws 859b, al.
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